The registration for the OPEN DAYS workshops closes today, with a total of 4939 participants from 54 countries. 71% come from a regional or local administration, travelling to Brussels specifically for the event.

For those who have missed the deadline: on-site registration to a workshop is still possible, provided it is accepted by the workshop organisers. Please check our practical information section on our website to know where to register on-site.

You can still register to one or several of our numerous side events: from the event Pulling resources together: exchange of best practice in talent retention for Europe (10 October) to a conference on Smart, sustainable and inclusive economic growth through territorial linkages. The example of 'food' (8 October).

You can also decide to join the Social aspects and citizen dialogue in city planning. How do we create socially sustainable cities where residents can have a good and healthy lifestyle? conference (9 October).

The Eurostat regional yearbook 2013 gives a detailed picture relating to a broad range of statistical topics across the regions of the Member States of the European Union (EU), as well as the regions of EFTA and candidate countries. At the stand will also be demonstrated different visualisation tools from the Eurostat website, especially the Statistical Atlas and Regional Statistics Illustrated.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.

A workshop at OPEN DAYS this year analyses the unevenness in the speed and scale of development. Policy makers have sought to address these uneven outcomes through various policies and measures to stimulate convergence in regional performance, with varied levels and consistency of success.

This workshop picks up these more general trends and seeks to explore:

the application of regional development theories and practices based on endogenous growth

the immediate but also structurally significant conditions of an 'austerity' Europe

and the advocacy of integrated approaches to regions that recognise the environmental imperative.